![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090507195556im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Nanophysicists Find Unexpected Magnetic Effect
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April 29, 2009
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In new research appearing this week in Nature, physicists at Rice University and the University of Alicante have found that single-atom contacts made of ferromagnetic metals like iron, cobalt and nickel, exhibit behavior consistent with the Kondo effect. The unexpected behavior appears to arise due to the tendency of the electrons on the last atom of material to align their spin in a countervailing direction from that of neighboring electrons.
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